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Commission acted in haste, says Baby
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The National Minority
Education Commission (NMEC) has "acted in haste"
on its decision to grant minority status to certain professional
colleges in Kerala, ignoring the government's plea for more
time to decide on the issue, Education Minister M A Baby said.
Replying to a submission by K C Venugopal (Cong), in the
assembly, Baby said the state education principal secretary
had talked to NMEC secretary on June 12 and sought more time
for the new government to take a decision on the minority
status issue. This was followed up with a fax message on June
14.
However, instead of postponing the decision on applications
for minority status from a fewcolleges, NMEC advanced their
decision while the state government was in the process of
enacting a legislation which also covered the minority status
issue, he said.
The minister said it would be ensured that nobody got undue
recognition in the name of minorities. "If NMEC was of
the view that they could not grant more time to the government
to fix minority status issue, they could have asked us to
speed up our decision. Instead, they acted in haste,"
he said.
Baby denied that there was any lapse on the part of the state
government in this regard.
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